"Cigarette", means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco irrespective of size or shape and whether or not such tobacco is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, and the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco."
It would be a stretch, which our representatives are good at, but as long as there is nicotine in the liquid which is derived from tobacco, they can use this against the e-cig.
No they can't. If that were the case, they'd be able to use the same argument against nicotine gum, patches, nasal sprays, throat lozenge and so on. Yet all of those things are legal and seen as completely safe by the public and government.
I work as a DJ at a club in the southwest burbs of Chicago. A few weeks back we had a fight in the parking lot and had 3 squad cars show up. While the cops were questioning the staff about the fight, I was sitting there puffing away. Every time I hit the thing there was a female officer that would give me a look, but she didn't say anything. When they were on their way out, the lady cop pulled me aside and I got the same questions I get from everywhere else:
COP: "What is that thing?"
ME: "It's a nicotine vaporizer."
COP: "How does it work?"
ME: "It's an electronic device that vaporizes a liquid that contains nicotine."
COP: "So you get nicotine but there's no smoke?"
ME: "Exactly."
COP: "Wow, that's neat. Where did you get it?"
Both of my brother's wives are hard-core anti-smokers. When I pulled my Blu out at thanksgiving dinner and started puffing on it, they asked the same questions as the cop. One even said that she had heard that one of the ingredients of the vapor was commonly found in antifreeze (propylene glycol), and then she gave me a disgusted look, as if I had traded one horrible vice for an even worse one. Of course, after I explained that propylene glycol was added to antifreeze to make it
less toxic, she relaxed and even gave it a try.
I guess my point is that there's a lot of ignorance out there about vaporizers, and there's a lot of FUD too, mostly being propagated by people who have something to lose if vaporizers are found safe by the masses. If we can educate others about vaporizers, then we won't have such a hard time using them in public.